For a peck of audiences in Australia over the past couple of years, Bonnie Stewart (Ireland) has been one of those subtly transcendent artists. Her lilting vocals float over gentle peaks of acoustic and electronic instruments, layered ethereally into what may be a moderately enchanted loop pedal. Under the spell of thrumming guitar, Stewart renders her arrangements with a fidelity of performance that seems to amplify an almost spectral presence. This is Bonniesongs. She’ll play loudly whilst making you ridiculously aware of silence and then go some way to reminding you how music is at its most basic, mere vibration moving through air, occupying the same molecular space as the incorporeal.

Composer. Writer. Photographer. Former conductor & founder of the ASKO ensemble.

On a bike/ski/hike trek of the Pacific Northwest studying native plants & climate breakdown 🌲 from sagebrush sea to whitebark pine. Composing off-grid the whole way.

#Sun2Sound 🌕 on Bluesky

THINKING LIKE A STONEPINE, a soundpoem manifesto https://vimeo.com/844665859

“LOVE & WATER, three thought poems w/ coda, PHAROS for small orchestra, “Nightwind”” https://vimeo.com/847079690 

CURRENTLY on mt bike/ski/climbing trek through Pacific Northwest, working on a photobook about WHITEBARK PINE COLLAPSE and CLIMATE CRISIS. BASES in the WALLOWAS | AMSTERDAM | ALPS. 

WEEKLY photo/poetry updates at www.picture-poems.com & THE CIRCLE IN THE SQUARE new music, poetry & dance performance project at www.cs-music.com

ALWAYS ON THE LOOKOUT for progressive, tech-savy, instrumental virtuosi interested in dialogue & collaborative undertakings.

CONTACT cliff@picture-opoems.com
Or on SKYPE or FACETIME @cliffcrego

MUSIC? The one thing humans do,
that makes the rest of nature jealous.

Say hi -> isabelmusic.au@gmail.com

Electronic music side project: https://soundcloud.com/ella-pho-real

Drummer and songwriter now based in Canberra, Australia. Nicholas McBride，畢業於澳洲國立大學的他亦是當地代表性團體Jazzgroove的創會成員。他曾與很多知名音樂人合作：包括Laura Fygi, Theo Croker, Dou Jing Tong, Sean Wayland, Sam Rivers和為亞洲樂迷所熟悉的順子、莫文蔚、黃大偉等。他現在活躍於上海，是最炙手可熱的樂手之一，除錄音工作外，他亦於蒲東栢悅酒店和最具歷史的和平飯店駐場。

www.facebook.com/IvonaRoseMusic 

IVONA ROSE (nee Budys) is raw, evocative and honest with a touch of strange. Dreamy, eccentric, melody marries poetic songwriting. 

She has been singing, writing poetry and songs since she was a young girl.  Her 1st instrument was the flute and she later went on to study music theory and piano at The Australian Institute of Music and through piano teacher Nick Fowler, who developed the Pop Piano syllabus for the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Her love of folk and alt country saw her import an Autoharp from the USA, which she has been playing for many years.  

Stylistically, there are elements of  Alternative, Folk, Acoustic, Country and Experimental music. Described as: “If Dolly Parton met Bjork”, she describes her music as "Folk Fiction Music, for Wolf Pack Sympathiser's".

In October 2012, Ivona won the Songwriting Society of Australia, Songwriter's and Performer's 1st Place prize, which has helped her get back into studio and record. Her new single "Hoopla" is focused on piano composition, voice and Ivona's unique story telling.  Produced with Brian Campeau, Sydney songwriter and musical brain, at his studio "The Plex".  Brian adds key elements to this delicate, new-folk song.

 “SheHeIYouMeWe” is Ivona’s debut EP, released independently.  It is her collaborations in composition with talented musicians; Aaron Flower (Yum Yum Tree Records, BAZ, The Alcohotlicks), Timothy Hall (Hazel, The Whitlams, The Strange) and Ewan Proctor (Xoandco, Quarter Acre).  The recording features many fine instrumentalist; Evan Mannell, Naomi Radom, Clayton Thomas and Stuart Hoy. 

It was her 1st release to radio and the recordings enjoyed high rotation on FBI, featured on 2SER, Bondi and Skid Row FM. 

2018 will see Ivona Rose release her debut album "So Modern". Produced with Brian Campeau at "The Plex" recording studio, it is a collection of 10 carefully selected and crafted songs. Featuring Zoe Hauptmann on Bass (Paul Kelly, Missy Higgins, King Curly), Evan Mannell on Drums (Sarah Belkner, The Alcohotlicks, Self Titled Artist), Emily Palethorpe on Cello (Sarah Blasko, Accent Strings), Casey Nicholson on Trumpet (Ngarukuruwala, The NEO, The Boom Band Krewe) and Brian Campeau on Guitars and Synth (Self Titled Artist, The Green Mohair Suits, Jimmy Swouse and the Angry Darts). 


"In the old days, this would have been filed under acoustic singer-songwriter or “she’s a folky female, man! dig it!” depending on who you were hanging out with and what you may have been smoking. Now there’s this new aisle called New Folk and this is probably what Ivona would be tagged with in the 21st Century. But on closer inspection, the six songs on her debut EP sheheiyoumewe are quite a mixed - and impressive - bag." Nic Dalton- Half a Cow Records

Jess was born in Canberra. In 2001 she completed a Bachelor of Music (Jazz Studies) majoring in guitar at the Canberra School of Music, ANU. She graduated with first class honours, and received the Directors Prize. After travel through Europe and West Africa, Jess based herself in Sydney for  twelve years, working in a wide variety of styles and settings. Jess has released three recordings under her own name; The Singing Fish (Contemporary Jazz, Jazzgroove Records), The New Dynamites (Alt Rock, Vitamin Records) and Tinkly Tinkly (Contemporary Jazz, Yum Yum Tree Records). Her music has been critically acclaimed nationally, both in print and on radio.

She has been nominated for a Freedman award, won the inaugural Jann Rutherford Memorial Award, and was Shortlisted for National Songwriters Association Song Contest ‘Ballad’ category. 
Jess has worked extensively as a guitarist and guitarist/singer with many well-known Australian musicians and groups, including touring for The catholics, Jim Conway’s Big Wheel, Petulant Frenzy, The 10 guitar project and Alyx Dennison as a session musician she has worked alongside Katie Noonan, Deborah Conway, Clare Bowditch, Tim Rogers, Urthboy and many more. From 2012-2015 Jess worked as guitarist, and vocalist for Shaun Parker Dance Company, touring major arts festivals in Australia as well as Europe and Malaysia in 2015. 

Jess has recorded for television, including channel 9’s ‘Love Child’ series, and also works as a composer, including original scores for theatre productions “Adult Child Dead Child” and “Boys Will Be Boys”

In 2016 Jess launched an alt-pop project and stage name Pheno, her debut EP was released in May 2017 (Dragon Year) and launched in Sydney as part of VIVID. As Pheno Jess won a CAPO award in 2016 and was awarded Australia Council funding to tour the project nationally in 2017, a recent highlight for the Pheno project was supporting New York artist “Joan as Policewoman” for her Canberra show (May 2019)

Jess, now based in Canberra, continues to perform nationally, recent highlights including in 2018, as part of an all female band that performed at the Commonwealth Games closing ceremony, performing with artists such as Kate Cebrano, Samantha Jade, Katie Noonan, Emma Donovan, Dami Im and Archie Roach. In 2019 Jess was part of the house band for Georgia Mooney’s (All My Exes Live in Texas) “Supergroup” working with Fanny Lumsden, Tim Rogers, Urthboy, Ben Salter and many more. Most Recently, Jess was a composer in residence for the Canberra International Music festival (along side Nick Wales and Bree van Reyk) and was commissioned for two pieces “Sing To Sky” ( a site specific piece for the James Turrell Skyspace at NGA) and “Shimmer Shimmer”

Jess is a sought-after music educator and has taught at The Australian Institute of Music, The University of Western Sydney, The SIMA Young Women’s Jazz Workshops, and has toured for Musica Viva in Schools for over 10 years.

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